Martin's shift, heroics win it for Dodgers

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 Martin's shift, heroics win it for Dodgers
LOS ANGELES -- The game that started on Friday ended on Saturday and like many tough marathon battles, even in victory there were casualties. So while the Dodgers took satisfaction in a gutsy 8-7 victory in 13 innings over the Rockies, there was the disappointing reality of yet another serious injury to Nomar Garciaparra. Only nine days after returning from a broken hand, he pulled the same ... [link]

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I Saw My Baby Gettin' Sloppy: Dodgers 8, Rockies 7 (13 Innings)
Published 4/26/2008 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... year — Broxton may get calls in the ninth earlier than we had hoped for), that could have been the winning run right there and spared us all four frames of additional agony. Ubaldo Jimenez gave up consecutive wild pitches in the third for a run. There's something deeply fitting that the game only had one error, Clint Barmes' misplay of Matt Kemp's grounder that allowed the latter to reach and eventually for the Dodgers to win the game. Blech. Yahoo Box • Recap

Dodgers News and Notes
Published 4/26/2008 by Erin at Robots Took My Medicine
I have been absent lately, I know.  I've now missed quite a few games, so instead of recaps of each of them, I'm just going to hit the high points.  I'll do the Red Sox the same way in a little while, and then hopefully I'll get back on track with daily posts. Bullet points sound good.  Let's do that. The Dodgers had a crappy road trip.  In five games, they went ...

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A sacrifice fly by Russell Martin, who made his Major League debut at third base four innings earlier, scored Matt Kemp in the bottom of the 13th inning to lift the Dodgers to an 8-7 win over the Rockies on Friday night.
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